The “Break it Down” Blog

Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for Viewers

What’s Going on with Netflix Streaming Performance? I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow. I’m on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” service had generally been excellent, almost never showing the buffering screen for a movie [...]

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Sony’s Poor Playstation 3 Sales and Marketing Isn’t Sabotage – It’s Just Sony

The Washington Times’s Sonny Bunch wrote an article recently that raked Sony over the coals for: No price cut this holiday season — instead they actually released a more expensive bundle Not properly promoting DVD-upscaling capabilities of the PS3 No Netflix (or other 3rd party) streaming movie support This is all in the wake of Sony’s falling PS3 sales [...]

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PS3 + Infrant ReadyNAS + Xvid Stream

It was reported shortly after the last PS3 Firmware 2.10 release that DivX support was added but Xvid support was only added when the media was played off the PS3’s hard drive. Well for you lucky Infrant ReadyNAS folks out there, it looks like the soon-to-be-released RAIDiator 4 relase of the OS for the ReadyNAS [...]

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XBox Media Extender + Vista Media Center = Media Lovin’

Chris Hunkele just did a kick-ass writeup of how to setup your Vista Media Center machine combined with your XBox 360 to create more or less a utopia of content-streaming fantasy. Chris also goes into detail about setting up additional utilities to remove commercials from recorded content as well as interesting tips like managing your BlockBuster [...]

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PS3 1.80 Firmware Update – AWESOME

Ted Regulski just dropped this gem in my inbox about the PS3 1.80 Firmware update due tommorow! Upscaling Playstation, Playstation 2 and DVDs to 1080p Ability to stream Images, Music, Movies from a DLNA3-enabled (UPnP A/V) device Remote Play on PSP over the Internet (Basically allows you to play anything from PS3, using PSP, from anywhere with a [...]

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